as well as numerous amateur radio digital formats from Yaesu, Kenwood, Icom and Alinco. The radio will also decode APCO-25 Phase I digital as well as conventional analog traffic. (The receiver does not trunk). MotoTrbo systems are now used by public safety agencies and business around the country and the world. NXDN is used by public safety as well as railroads around the nation.
This radio is a huge breakthrough and we hope you’ll join us at Dayton this year to see the receiver in action, live at our booth. We also will have a small stock available for purchase at the show. Gommert Buysen of BuTel Software will once again be at our booth as well
| Character | Code | Character | Code | Character | Code | Character | Code | Character | Code | Character | Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | · — | J | · — — — | S | · · · | 1 | · — — — — | . | · — · — · — | : | — — — · · · |
| B | — · · · | K | — · — | T | — | 2 | · · — — — | , | — — · · — — | ; | — · — · — · |
| C | — · — · | L | · — · · | U | · · — | 3 | · · · — — | ? | · · — — · · | = | — · · · — |
| D | — · · | M | — — | V | · · · — | 4 | · · · · — | '' | · — — — — · | + | · — · — · |
| E | · | N | — · | W | · — — | 5 | · · · · · | ! | — · — · — — | - | — · · · · — |
| F | · · — · | O | — — — | X | — · · — | 6 | — · · · · | / | — · · — · | _ | · · — — · — |
| G | — — · | P | · — — · | Y | — · — — | 7 | — — · · · | ( | — · — — · | " | · — · · — · |
| H | · · · · | Q | — — · — | Z | — — · · | 8 | — — — · · | ) | — · — — · — | $ | · · · — · · — |
| I | · · | R | · — · | 0 | — — — — — | 9 | — — — — · | & | · — · · · | @ | · — — · — · |
If you've heard somebody use terminology you're not familiar with, look it up here and you're likely to find the definition. If you don't find it, contact us and we will consider adding it to the list.
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| ? | "Slashed Zero" - distinguishes a ZERO from the letter "O". Intended to resolve ambiguity in callsigns like ""W?OF". Not needed for callsigns like "W0RK". Can be produced by pressing Alt?216 on your PC keyboard (Note: you must use the numeric keypad, not the numbers across the top row of the keyboard. This method should work in most PC-based editors such as e-mail clients, word processors, etc.) |
| 73 | "Best Regards" (Source: "Morse Code: The Essential Language", 2nd Ed., ARRL Publishing) |
| 807 | An old glass vacuum tube, several inches tall and around. Also, slang for a beer, as in "there's nothing like a cold 807 on a hot Arizona afternoon" (thanks to W7QY). According to our friends in Ireland, a pint of Guinness is known as a "Black 807" (thanks to GI4FUE). |
| 88 | "Hugs" and/or "Kisses" |
| ACSB | Amplitude Compandored Sideband modulation |
| AGC | "Automatic Gain Control"; a circuit in a radio which automatically adjusts the overall gain of the receiver |
| A-Index | Linear index for measuring the disturbance level in the earth's magnetic field. The index is defined over a period of one day (Courtesy of IPS Radio and Space Services, Sydney, Australia). |
| AM | "Amplitude Modulation"; slang often used is "Ancient Modulation" (courtesy of VE3FFK). |
| AMTOR | "Automatic Teleprinting Over Radio"; popular digital mode on HF |
| Antenna Gain | The ratio of the power required at the input of a loss-free reference antenna to the power supplied to the input of the given antenna to produce, in a given direction, the same field strength at the same distance (def. courtesy of Telecom Glossary 2000) |
| Antenna Party | A long-standing tradition among hams where several gather to assist a fellow ham in mounting antennas and/or towers. Often accompanied by malt consumables and lies AFTER the tower and the antennas are up and working...well, the consumables anyway (thanks to WD5CTQ). |
| AOS | "Acquisition of Signal" from a satellite; occurs when the satellite becomes "visible" to the antenna as it comes up from the horizon. |
| APRS | Automatic Packet Reporting System (Uses GPS + Packet Radio) |
| ARRL | "American Radio Relay League"; A U.S.-based organization which exists to support Amateur Radio. For more information, please visit http://www.arrl.org. |
| ATV | "Amateur
Television"; typically found on the 430 MHz and 1.2 GHz bands; see
http://www.hampubs.com/atv.htm for more information (thanks to KG4LXA for the suggested link).
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